Texas Jurisprudence Exam Actual

Texas Jurisprudence Exam / Actual Questions & & Verified Answers, / .Quiz____?Can a patient successfully sue a doctor if there is no physician-patient relationship? - Answer✓✓ No Quiz____?If there is no prior physician-patient relationship, are you legally obliged to respond to a call from a patient for treatment? - Answer✓✓ No Quiz____?Does being on call give rise to a physician-patient relationship? - Answer✓✓ No Quiz____?How can one terminate a physician-patient relationship, without abandonment if there is ongoing treatment? - Page 1 of 127 1 / 4

Answer✓✓ 30 days written notice; must provide for emergency Quiz____?Does a physician's duty extend to the unborn child or potential victims of an ill patient? - Answer✓✓ Yes Quiz____?What is "proximate cause"? - Answer✓✓ Prove that negligence caused harm and that the cause was not too remote; what is required to hold a defendant liable in a civil lawsuit Quiz____?What are the two components of proximate cause? - Answer✓✓ Cause-in-fact (but-for test) and foreseeability Quiz____?Does an expert witness have to be actively practicing medicine? - Answer✓✓ Yes Page 2 of 127 2 / 4

Quiz____?Does an expert witness have to know standards of care? - Answer✓✓ Yes Quiz____?Does an expert witness have to have enough training to express an opinion on whether standard of care was provided? - Answer✓✓ Yes Quiz____?Does an expert witness have to be board certified? - Answer✓✓ No, board certified or eqivalent Quiz____?In a medical malpractice case, are expert witnesses required? - Answer✓✓ Yes, with two exceptions Quiz____?In a medical malpractice setting, what 2 instances do not need expert testimony? - Page 3 of 127 3 / 4

Answer✓✓ Res ipsa loquitur (e.g., amputation of wrong leg) and negligence per se (a law was broken) Quiz____?What are "exemplary damages"? - Answer✓✓ Damages above compensatory designed to punish the defendant and deter the behavior Quiz____?Is there a cap to noneconomic damages? How much? - Answer✓✓ $250,000 for physicians, $500,000 for hospitals Quiz____?Does the cap on noneconomic damage depend on the number of defendants or claimants? - Answer✓✓ No Quiz____?What is "proportional responsibility"? - Answer✓✓ Percentage of liability apportioned according to percentage of fault Page 4 of 127

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